Andrew C. Oliver of InfoWorld.com writes, “There are several types of NoSQL databases and rational reasons to use them in different situations for different datasets. It’s much more complicated than tech industry marketing nonsense like “NoSQL = scale.”

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The editors at SearchDataManagement.com have reviewed their most popular Hadoop-related stories of 2013, and taken together, they form a narrative of Hadoop in 2013. The content followed the path of Hadoop and related software tools, such as HBase, as they gained footholds in the enterprise.

Read about the Top 5 Enterprise Hadoop Stories here by Jack Vaughan Read More

Bringing back to the fore one of the most popular posts! With R being one of the most popular programming languages for analytics, we wanted to provide additional free resources to those who are interested in learning more about it. Here are 2 of the most popular introductory videos to learn R. Read More

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Here is a link to a 27 page PDF Survey Report on Big Data Hadoop Practitioners produced by the SandHill Group and released a little over a month ago.
The report authored by Bradley Graham and M. R. Rangaswami contains lots of useful information for current and future Hadoop users. Read More